Foreword: I forgot the original reason that you had for having me write this in a project, but it was fun and the idea of you reading a super short summery of my story is really nice, so here it is!

 

My main character is a member of an occult warrior village that lives on a powerful, gargantuan volcano which they worship. He, just like all members of this cult, are taught how to fight with and forge a wide variety of weapons, as well as survive on their own for as long as they need to.

However, this volcano also helps them fight. To those who exhibit great potential, the cult leaders have them be taught how to pray to the volcano during combat and ask it for a small fraction of its power. Once granted,they can use this power to perform supernatural actions, from foresight to instant teleportation.

The plot starts when my protagonist (I still don’t know his name) is learning how to teleport, but he just cannot do it correctly. Then, in one final attempt, he closes his eyes and tries again. But something goes wrong. Once his connection to the great volcano was established and the power granted, in his frustration he subconsciously forces this connection open, forcing the flow of immense power into him. Having this power focused into teleportation, it causes a disastrous event which sends ripples across many worlds.

Him and everything and everyone around him are being teleported to a thousand different locations every second, completely destroying more than half of his home and killing members some. Upon shifting his focus to outside his mind, he sees what is happening and tries to stop it, but the flow of power is so great that neither he nor the volcano can close the connection. Think of a door with vast amounts of water flowing through it. So in desperation, he raises his hands to the sky and discharges as much energy as he can. But this immense focus of energy opens a portal. A portal which leads to a thousand different places at once. Across many worlds and many times, countless cities are vanishing without a trace, only to find themselves falling from the sky into a strange new world, scattered across its surface as dust. 

Once enough power has been discharged, the connection to the great volcano is finally severed. But Protagonist finds himself many miles away in a strange place, in one of the cities he’s teleported. It’s a technologically-advanced city. Their infrastructure is devastated and their people in shock from the disaster, but they have his face. The people saw him, cameras snapped pictures of him, and they all know that is was HIM that did this to them. 

The story follows my protagonist as he tries to make his was back home, while all the cities around the world and even his own cult fear him and try to hunt him down.

 

Bio

My protagonist’s main personality trait is a fiery passion, which is reflected in his literal fiery nature. He’s an artist at heart, and combat is his medium. But the cult he’s originally a part of teaches its members a very rigid way of living and thinking, which too much of can kill creativity and passion. His journey back home sees him challenged on everything he’s been taught, as well as his own personal flaws. He learns to question the validity and importance of the code and rules he’s lived by all his life, the biggest challenger being his antagonist.

 

Antagonist’s story’s summery.

My antagonist, who’s from another world, is just a regular man. But at birth, he and someone very close to him (his brother or best friend) have been cursed with the curse of pure immortality. “Pure,” because immortality is the only thing the curse gives them. It doesn’t protect them from harm or injury. The only other thing it does is slows their aging to -75%. Otherwise, they can be hurt and injured in any way that a regular human can, but their life will NEVER leave their body. No matter what. Naturally this is scary, and they both want to lift this curse, but they don’t know where to start, so they just live a normal life. Until one day something happens. I don’t know what, but something happens where the antagonist sustains a normally fatal injury. Like maybe he completely bleeds out or something, I dunno. He’s still alive of course, but his brother or friend has it worse. He is horribly mangled to the point of being unrecognizable as a person. But he’s still alive and in unimaginable pain. 

This traumatizes the character, and from that point forth, he endeavors to do anything, no matter what, to lift the curse, both to let his friend rest in peace, and out of fear for himself, lest he suffer the same fate and be in eternal torment. After his family and loved ones die, his goal expands to allow himself to die and not be burdened with the existential pain that comes with simply being immortal.

The next time his country holds elections, he runs for the king’s office and wins. Or he takes the position by force or some underhanded method, I’m not sure yet. Once he becomes king, he does everything he can to lift the curse. I don’t know what or who caused the curse in the first place, but whatever it is, the King is on a quest to find something or someone that can lift it. He’s a relatively decent guy at first, or at least as decent as a politician can be, but the longer he lives and the more he ages, the longer he sees the pile of flesh that is his friend, the more he’s reminded about his aging body and the increasing likelihood of suffering a similar fate as his friend the longer he lives. This feeling of impending doom drives him to do worse and worse things until he’s going out and conquering other kingdoms, killing and even forcing his own citizens to fight with no prior training, if he’s lacking manpower and if he thinks that another kingdom has something that can help him.

Then, my protagonist causes the mass teleportation disaster, and the King is teleported to a strange new world along with his palace and part of the surrounding city. After the initial shock, he sees this as a grand new opportunity. He has lived for 200 years in his original world and has made no progress whatsoever. Maybe in this new place he can find whatever he needs to and lift the curse. Pretty soon he learns about the protagonist and somehow finds out that the protagonist possesses an item or the means to lift his curse. He meets the protagonist really early on and asks him for help, but the protagonist refuses. Maybe it’s against the moral code his cult taught him in. Maybe it’s against his own personal moral code. Maybe it goes against a rule or the set of rules that his cult imposed upon him, or maybe the idea of not wanting to be immortal sounds really stupid to him, and since he’s extremely stubborn he refuses, and the more he’s pressed to comply, the more he stands his ground. Or any combination of those reasons. The point is, the villain wants something, and the protagonist is very easily able to provide that to him with absolutely no expense to himself, but refuses, causing the King to try to take it by force, causing conflict.

You don’t have to read this next bit, it isn’t a part of the story. But it’d be nice if you did.

 

So anyway, that was the basis of my story. There are so many important things I had to leave out for brevity’s sake, but still so much more I have yet to discover about the worlds and characters, and I cannot wait to eventually have it made into an animated series. I don’t know how or when, but it WILL happen.

Thank you so much for the content you make. It’s giving me so much insight, and while watching, I find myself frequently picking up my pen and notebook and often becoming lost in it as I write not only the important and insightful thing I heard you say, but as I’m hit with new ideas to apply to my story. Just in the second to last lesson, I discovered a new detail for my villain. 

So one side thing I want to communicate with this villain is how years of chasing a goal caused him to lose focus of the actual goal as he just does whatever he needs to do to achieve it. Just like if you’re running at a distant wall with your head down. You’re just looking down at your feet, focusing on the next step till you eventually crash into the wall and it takes you by surprise. You know where you’re going, but you’re not focused directly on it. Just on how to get there. It’s like that. So anyway, as I was watching the second to last lesson you gave me an idea for how to communicate that part of him. He has, over the years, acquired a few items, each of which give him a specific power. And one of those powers is super fast healing. This effectively negates most of the negative aspects of his curse. When he gets horribly injured, he can just heal himself. Hell, there is nothing at all stopping him from just healing his friend and turning him from a pile of flesh into a perfectly healthy person. But that thought never ONCE enters his mind because. He has been chasing his goal for so long, that given the ACTUAL SOLUTION to hs problem, it is impossible for him to see that it’s a solution because it’s not THE THING he’s chasing. He is dead set on reaching his goal, and damnit, he’s gonna win no matter WHAT.

Anyway, I forgot what you said that made me come up with that, but it’s thanks to you that I did, so thank you!